Of Vampires and of Neko-Jins chapter two

Title: Of Vampires and of Neko-Jins

Anime: Gundam Wing

Rating: R (just to be safe on later chapters)

Genre: Supernatural, angst, yaoi, yuri, romance

Pairing(s): 6x13 2x5 1x2x5 4x3 2xS

Warning(s): contains yaoi & Yuri may have lime in this chapter (I'm not sure, I haven't written it before) bad language, references to rape & abuse

Summary: see previous chapter

Authors note(s): Sorry it took a while to post, I was on holiday for almost two weeks, then school started... argh! well, anyway, a BIG THANKYOU to my new beta-reader, dkAdeena who beta'd this for me! yay you! thank-you!

Beta-Read By: dkAdeena

Chapter Two:

Pointedly looking at the scroll, Treize raised an eyebrow again. Milliardo passed him the scroll, nodding, silently allowing him to read it.

Treize's expression darkened as he read on, glancing up at his lover worriedly, before re-reading to, then passing it back.

"Duo, Wufei, Trowa, Treize, I have something to discuss with the four of you"

Nervously glancing at each other, assuming they were in trouble, Duo hurriedly started talking.

"It's not their fault, I swear! I started the food fight! I'm really, really sorry. Please don't split us up, please!" Duo begged, a desperate note in his voice.

Treize, pitying the younger Neko's, intervened, as his lover was just staring open-mouthed at the now sobbing braided neko-jin.

Standing up, Treize moved over to the other side of the table, taking the sobbing neko onto his lap, sitting between Wufei and Trowa, rubbing the poor kit's back, trying to calm him down, Wufei and Trowa clinging to both of his sides.

"Sssssh, its ok, sssh, shush, you're not in trouble, none of you are. Come on, ssh, calm down, you're not going to be split up. sssh, its ok little one. Stop crying, it'll be ok" Treize reassured him, rocking him back and forth, back and forth, wiping his tears away.

Eventually, the second youngest neko-jin calmed down. With a quiet thank you, he got up off of Treize's lap, sharing the chair beside him with Wufei, both clinging to each other, just in case.

"I'm not that bad, am I?" Milliardo asked, shocked at the young Neko's reaction.

"Milliardo, you've got to remember, they've all led very sheltered, unhappy lives, until you took them away from the other kits and vampires.

They've never had a good experience with a vampire, have they? On some level, they blame themselves for what those vampires did to them. Then, you go and send all of the vampires away for, as they see it, were normal, every day events. They knew about the abuse and the feeding, and didn't know it was wrong.

They've seen how harsh you can be, and it scares them. They don't know you like I do, Mil. If you'd trust them more, open up to them a little, they wouldn't fear you so.

Tell them the truth. It will help them to understand you better, and to learn not to fear you so much." Treize finished gently, smiling encouragingly at his lover.

Sighing, Milliardo began to explain.

"All of you already know that I am a vampire, correct?" Milliardo began pacing, as the three neko-jins nodded hesitantly.

"Do any of you know how someone ... becomes a vampire?" Milliardo continued, obviously uncomfortable with the topic, as the three young ones shook their heads.

"Well, when I was younger, about nineteen or so, I was... I was the prince of a place called Sanq. I wasn't exactly...happy, being a prince, I mean. A vampire...approached me" running his fingers through his bangs, sighing, he continued. " His name... His name was Heero Yuy. He was only about five-hundred at the time, and ... when I accepted his offer, Ii became the first vampire he sired." Seeing the confusion in all four of the Neko's eyes, he explained.

"When a human is turned into a vampire, the human has their blood completely drained from their body, before drinking some of the vampire's blood when they are on the brink of death.

In-in ... in order to complete the process, the vampire usually... claims, or-or basically, rapes them. When it is completed, the older vampire becomes the new vampire's sire. All sires have a certain amount of power over those that they turn." Milliardo's voice was trembling slightly. Treize quickly joined his lover, holding him, putting his arm around his trembling creators back.

"Yo-you were raped to?" Trowa whispered, shocked. Milliardo smiled grimly, nodding once stiffly.

"It's not exactly something I spread around. You four are the first non-vampires I've ever told. The only others who know are my sire, Heero, and a slightly younger vampire, Quatre. He used to be like a little brother to me..."

"Guess how old I am." Milliardo suddenly asked, randomly changing the subject.

"Um, well...." all of the Neko-jins, save Treize who just looked amused, looked slightly nervous and, well, confused.

"Go on, guess. Believe me, I wont be offended."

"Eight-hundred" Duo guessed, causing Milliardo to laugh.

"No. Guess again."

"One-thousand" Trowa quietly guessed.

"No. Not even close. One more try!"

"Three-thousand" Wufei guessed, voice sounding slightly bolder than the other two.

"Wrong! I'm sixteen thousand five hundred winters old" Milliardo told the gawping Neko-jins; even Treize looked slightly taken aback.

Growing serious again, Milliardo explained.

"My sire is the last of the Ancients. I am, technically, the second oldest vampire still walking these plains. I belonged to, belong to, I mean, the Clan; every vampire does. The Crimson Wing Clan. My sire is its founder and leader, which makes me..." Milliardo paused, sighing again, sitting down, clasping his hands together and laying them on the table.

"His second in command."

"And one hell of an important vampire." Treize added, smiling down at his lover who weakly smiled back.

"That's why the other vampires didn't question you and were bloody terrified of you..." Duo gawped, finally understanding.

"B-but, if you're that important, why bother with us and breeding Neko-jins?" Wufei asked quietly.

"And why haven't we ever seen any of these important Clan members you've mentioned?" Trowa added.

"Uh-huh. And how come you're mentioning it now?" Duo finished, tightening his grip on his young raven-haired lover.

Milliardo's ice-blue eyes darkened, momentarily masked in sorrow; he quietly began to explain what he had told Treize in little detail, years earlier, before they had become lovers.

"About a thousand years ago, I did something very, very stupid. I ... I fell in love with a mortal man. His name was Treize Kushrenada.

He was a General, born of noble blood of both Germany and Russia. He was a great leader of men, who won many a battle. I was his second-in-command for a while. That's when I fell for him.

Heero and Quatre must have guessed, or followed me, because they told me to choose. I offered him the chance to join me, to join the Clan, to become immortal, but.... he refused.

He died in battle. After his death, I left the clan for a while. I became obsessed with trying to find him, trying to get him back at any cost. That's why I started, that's why I started trying to create, and later, breed Neko-jins.

Treize here was the first to survive his teens. I named him after my first lover, because the two were so alike, yet so different.

Treize, however, got lonely, not wanting to be the only one of his kind, which is why I continued the breeding program.

To tell you the truth, I haven't contacted the clan since I left over a millennia ago." Laughing bitterly, he added. " I should have known they wouldn't let me go that easily."

Treize took over. "Milliardo received word from the clan. They're not amused. They want to know what he's been doing for the past millennia, and why he hasn't reported in for so long. Seeing as Milliardo hasn't gone to them, they're coming to him. They'll be here within the next two weeks."

"I'm so sorry I didn't tell you-" Milliardo began to apologize, only to be tackled and fiercely hugged by the three little neko-jins.

"You lost someone close to you. I understand." Duo smiled, hugging him.

"He raped you" Trowa simply said, hugging him.

"You've been hurt, and didn't know who you could trust." Wufei finished, hugging him.

"See, I told you they'd understand, didn't I? We're family now, Milliardo. You can trust us, no matter what." Treize finished, eyes shining, as he leaned up to kiss Milliardo deeply, earning two loud 'ewww!!!'s from Wufei and Duo, and Trowa rolling his eyes at them.

"I think we have some work to do before they get here, agreed?"

End of chapter two.

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